Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #225052 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-07-27
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 93 minutes

Customer Reviews

What a Stinker !
This movie is awful.

Sound quality wasn't very good, video quality was mediocre to poor, the story line was garbage, the characters were pathetic or disgusting, the acting was so sad.

This movie is one of the lamest I've seen in my life. It wasn't worth the time I spent watching it. I regret paying $2 for this turkey. Now, I can't sell it 'cause I don't want to screw the next person.

Ursula looks pretty good, and one scene where she's tied up while two girls rub her down with oil was erotic, but it sure didn't make up for the rest of this clunker.

Go find something else to spend your money on.

"You Don't Forget The Taste Of Human Flesh!"
This Italian stinker is a wretched film despite the presence of the talented Stacy Keach as Professor Edward Foster, and the obvious assets of Ursula Andress as Susan Stevenson. The gist of the plot is that money-hungry Stevenson and her annoying brother hire Foster to help them find Stevenson's husband on a tropical island in New Guinea, which is the home to vicious cannibals, the Pukas. The rest of the film features lots of footage of scary things: alligators, cobras, tarantulas, cannibals, even a medicinal worm application in a highly unorthodox first aid setting. The expedition shapes up to be Foster, Stevenson and annoying brother, a bunch of natives, and Claudio Cassinelli as Manolo, the love interest for Stevenson.

The expedition does not start well when Foster kills a spider with a machete, spooking the natives. There is a whole lot of footage of the group walking around in the jungle, canoeing, and general unpleasantness in a hot, steamy jungle. Foster provides a lot of backstory about how he was once kidnapped by the Pukas, but they didn't eat him because he cured the chief's son of a disease. Foster clashes with the Stevenson party because he is an idealist (as is Manolo), while they just want the mineral rights to the island. Because of this conflict, they let Foster slide down an waterfall to his death, a turn of events (and the only one) that actually surprised me. Keach deserves an award for delivering his commands to tribesmen in a "native language" of some sort professionally and without laughing; the rest of the actors have accents so thick as to make ordinary interactions virtually indecipherable.

The party gets attacked by natives, and Ursula shows them a photo of her husband. They make her the new queen (you won't believe her outfit), as they have killed her husband and implanted his Geiger counter in his sternum and now worship him as a false god. There is a lot of chanting and dancing, some ritual disemboweling and cannibalism, and a budding relationship between Stevenson and Manolo as they make their escape from the cannibal isle. Watch especially for the annoying cannibal dwarf.

If I have made this seem fairly interesting or exciting, I apologize, because it isn't. Large swaths of the film are mere padding, the constant electronic music is extremely grating, the script is woeful, and the acting (except by Keach) is pitifully amateurish. The credits are long and undistinguished (you will be unsurprised to discover that the interiors were filmed in Rome), and despite the intrinsically titillating title, the only emotion possible at its conclusion is one of relief.